Abstract: An information processing device including a calculation unit that calculates an evaluation function using a visibility threshold of a test subject obtained by performing a visual acuity examination on the test subject and using a parameter related to a visual object, and a spectral transmittance optimization unit that optimizes a spectral transmittance of a filter having a spectral transmittance to light from the visual object using the evaluation function when passed through the filter.

Abstract: An optical structure according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a first film for suppressing ultraviolet rays; and a second film having a transmission spectrum for which the wavelength having the smallest transmission rate is 570-605 nm. The first film is disposed at a position which is closer to a light source than the second film is.

Abstract: An analysis unit determines at least two boundaries by determining; in a coordinate system indicating a correlation between a luminance contrast value between a luminance of an attention portion and a luminance of a background portion, and a luminance average value of a visual target including the attention portion and the background portion; the boundary between a region where a subject has a visibility and a region where the subject does not have the visibility for each combination of stimulus values of a color stimulus of a visual target.

Abstract: An analysis unit determines at least two boundaries by determining; in a coordinate system indicating a correlation between a luminance contrast value between a luminance of an attention portion and a luminance of a background portion, and a luminance average value of a visual target including the attention portion and the background portion; the boundary between a region where a subject has a visibility and a region where the subject does not have the visibility for each combination of stimulus values of a color stimulus of a visual target.

Abstract: A piezoelectric polymer material comprising a helical chiral polymer having a weight average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000 and optical activity, the piezoelectric polymer material having: crystallinity as obtained by a DSC method of from 40% to 80%; a transmission haze with respect to visible light of 50% or less; and a product of the crystallinity and a standardized molecular orientation MORc, which is measured with a microwave transmission-type molecular orientation meter at a reference thickness of 50 ?m, of from 40 to 700.

Abstract: A piezoelectric polymer material comprising a helical chiral polymer having a weight average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000 and optical activity, the piezoelectric polymer material having: crystallinity as obtained by a DSC method of from 40% to 80%; a transmission haze with respect to visible light of 50% or less; and a product of the crystallinity and a standardized molecular orientation MORc, which is measured with a microwave transmission-type molecular orientation meter at a reference thickness of 50 ?m, of from 40 to 700.

Abstract: The invention provides a piezoelectric polymer material comprising a helical chiral polymer having a weight average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000 and optical activity, the piezoelectric polymer material having: crystallinity as obtained by a DSC method of from 20% to 80%; a transmission haze with respect to visible light of 50% or less; and a product of the crystallinity and a standardized molecular orientation MORc, which is measured with a microwave transmission-type molecular orientation meter at a reference thickness of 50 ?m, of from 40 to 700.

Abstract: The invention provides a piezoelectric polymer material comprising a helical chiral polymer having a weight average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000 and optical activity, the piezoelectric polymer material having: crystallinity as obtained by a DSC method of from 20% to 80%; a transmission haze with respect to visible light of 50% or less; and a product of the crystallinity and a standardized molecular orientation MORc, which is measured with a microwave transmission-type molecular orientation meter at a reference thickness of 50 ?m, of from 40 to 700.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an optical recording medium which is capable of performing good recording and reproducing by using a laser having a wavelength of 300 to 900 nm, a novel azo metal chelate compound, and a novel azo compound. Furthermore, the present invention is to provide an optical recording medium having an azo metal chelate compound in a recording layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a trimethine dimer compound represented by the following general formula (I) and optical recording medium containing such a compound in a recording layer. (I)(In the formula, symbols are as in the description. When both Xa2 and Xb2 are imino groups, one of Xa1, Xb1, Xa3 and Xb3 is necessarily a 1-alkyl-1-benzylmethylene group which may have a substituent, a 1,1-dibenzylmethylene group which may have a substituent or a cycloalkane-1,1-diyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms which may have a substituent.

Abstract: An optical filter of the present invention contains at least one tetra-acenaphthoporphyrin compound. The tetra-acenaphthoporphyrin compound has preferably its absorption maximum in a wavelength range of from 530 to 570 nm and a ratio of an absorption coefficient at 550 nm to an absorption coefficient at 525 nm of not less than 1.2. Also, a percentage of light transmittance at 550 nm to light transmittance at 525 nm is preferably not more than 85%. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide the optical filter which can eliminate an unnecessary light mainly existing in a wavelength of from 520 to 700 nm and is excellent in durability. A display unit using the optical filter of the present invention can improve contrast in a bright place, and improve color purity of luminescent color.

Abstract: An optical recording medium having an organic dye layer as a recording layer on a substrate, wherein at least one benzobisazole-based compound represented by a general formula (1) is contained in the recording layer: (wherein substituents X and Y each independently represent an aryl group or a heteroaryl group, rings A and B each independently represent an oxazole ring or a thiazole ring, and Q1 and Q2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an alkyl group, with a proviso that, aryl group(s) or heteroaryl group(s) represented by the substituents X and Y each independently may be substituted by a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a cyano group, an amino group or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aralkyl, aryl, alkenyl, alkoxy, aralkyloxy, aryloxy, alkenyloxy, alkylthio, aralkylthio, arylthio, alkenylthio, mono-substituted amino, di-substituted amino, acyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aralkyloxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, alkenyloxycarbonyl, mono-substituted aminocarbonyl, di-substituted aminoc

Abstract: An optical recording medium having a recording layer which contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of mono-, di-, and triazaporphyrin compounds optionally in the form of a metal complex; or an optical recording medium comprising a substrate and formed thereon at least a recording layer containing an organic dye as a main component, characterized in that the organic dye has a first maximum value of absorption at a wavelength ?1 of 400 nm or less in the absorption spectrum and has a second maximum value of absorption at a longer-wavelength side than the ?1, and a wavelength band wherein the refractive index (n) and the absorption coefficient (k) of the above organic dye satisfy n?1.90 and 0.03?k?0.30.

Abstract: The display filter is constituted by laminating a transparent adhesive layer (C) 31 containing dye, a polymer film (B) 20, a transparent electrically conductive layer (D) 10, a transparent adhesive layer (E) 40, and a functional transparent layer (A) 60 having an anti-reflection property, a hard coat property, a gas barrier property, an antistatic property and an anti-fouling property sequentially in this order, adhered on a display area 00; on this occasion, the transparent electrically conductive layer (D) 10 is grounded to a ground terminal of the display via an electrode 50 and an electrically conductive copper foil adhesive tape 80.

Abstract: An optical recording medium containing in the recording layer a dipyrromethene-metal chelate compound of which the initial principal weight loss temperature is thermogravimetrically from 330° C. through 500° C. inclusive, capable of high speed and high density recording and playback with a laser having a wavelength of 520 to 690 nm.

Abstract: An optical recording medium having a recording layer which contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of mono-, di-, and triazaporphyrin compounds optionally in the form of a metal complex; or an optical recording medium comprising a substrate and formed thereon at least a recording layer containing an organic dye as a main component, characterized in that the organic dye has a first maximum value of absorption at a wavelength &lgr;1 of 400 nm or less in the absorption spectrum and has a second maximum value of absorption at a longer-wavelength side than the &lgr;1, and a wavelength band wherein the refractive index (n) and the absorption coefficient (k) of the above organic dye satisfy n≧1.90 and 0.03≦k≦0.30.

Abstract: A recordable optical recording medium of this invention capable of good recording and reproduction with a laser at wavelengths of 300 to 500 nm and/or 500 to 700 nm comprises at least one porphycene compounds optionally chelated with a metal in its recording layer.

Abstract: The display filter is constituted by laminating a transparent adhesive layer (C) 31 containing dye, a polymer film (B) 20, a transparent electrically conductive layer (D) 10, a transparent adhesive layer (E) 40, and a functional transparent layer (A) 60 having an anti-reflection property, a hard coat property, a gas barrier property, an antistatic property and an anti-fouling property sequentially in this order, adhered on a display area 00; on this occasion, the transparent electrically conductive layer (D) 10 is grounded to a ground terminal of the display via an electrode 50 and an electrically conductive copper foil adhesive tape 80.

Abstract: An optical recording medium having an organic dye layer as a recording layer on a substrate, wherein at least one benzobisazole-based compound represented by a general formula (1) is contained in the recording layer: 1

Abstract: An optical recording medium comprising at least a recording layer and a reflecting layer on a substrate wherein the recording layer contains at least one dipyrromethene-metal chelate compound represented by general formula (1): wherein R1 to R6 independently represent hydrogen, halogen, nitro, cyano, hydroxyl, amino, carboxyl, sulfo, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl with up to 20 carbon atoms, alkoxy, alkylthio, aryloxy, arylthio, alkenyl, acyl, alkoxycarbonyl, carbamoyl, acylamino, aralkyl, aryl or heteroaryl; R7 represents halogen, aryl, heteroaryl, alkoxy, alkylthio, aryloxy or arylthio; A represents substituted or unsubstituted aromatic or heterocyclic ring with up to 20 carbon atoms; L1 represents substituted or unsubstituted bivalent residue forming a ring together with carbon atoms to which it attaches and optionally containing a hetero atom; and M1 represents transition metal element.